From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57512 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: new user assistant (was: Wizards! I mean, Assistants!) Date: 18 May 2004 15:36:40 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nk6z9bk8n.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> References: <4nd653nm2i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nzn86honu.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084910015 7270 80.91.224.253 (18 May 2004 19:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6052@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 18 21:53:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQAeU-0003F2-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:53:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQAeJ-0005ki-00; Tue, 18 May 2004 14:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQAeF-0005kd-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 May 2004 14:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BQAeE-00033z-Nw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 May 2004 14:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.bwh.harvard.edu (sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.44]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F3F3A0219 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 14:53:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 8072 invoked from network); 18 May 2004 19:47:34 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) ([134.174.9.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 May 2004 19:47:33 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 17 May 2004 21:36:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57512 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57512 @title Configuring Gnus for the first time @node What do you want to do with Gnus? ;; defaults to nnml @variable backends :'(set (const :tag "Read news via NNTP" nntp) (const :tag "Read news via RSS" nnrss) (const :tag "Read news from Slashdot" nnslashdot) (const :tag "Manage TODO items" nntodo) (const :tag "Read mail with nnml" nnml) (const :tag "Read mail with nnmaildir" nnmaildir) (const :tag "Read mail with nnimap" nnimap)) '(nnml) ;; defaults to sendmail @variable outbound :'(choice (const :tag "Send mail via sendmail" sendmail) (const :tag "Send mail via SMTP" smtp)) 'sendmail @result primary-mail-selections (list backends outbound) @text Welcome to Gnus. You need to tell us what you want to do with Gnus before we go on to specific configurations. Choose the tasks you want to set up: @variable{backends} Choose the method Gnus will use to send mail: @variable{outbound} @end text ;; note that @next is a list, so we are building a tree starting at ;; this node - this is a very important piece of the format ;; I'm not worrying about the correctness of the backquoted macros, ;; this is just a demo of the "next node" syntax @next `(,@(when (assq 'nnml backends) "Configuring the nnml backend") ,@(when (assq 'nntp backends) "Configuring the NNTP backend") [...] ,@(when (eq sendmail outbound) "Configuring sendmail") ,@(when (eq smtp outbound) "Configuring SMTP")) What do you think about the format, before I write more? Ted